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<h2>Think, Drink, and Eat with Chopsticks</h2>
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    <p>
        <b>The ${clique.name} is a nonprofit organization</b>
        ${clique.description}
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    <div class="sidebar right">
        <h2>Enter email to subscribe to our mailing list</h2>
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                Email:
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                Send email to
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            <p class="archives">
                <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/diningphilosophers">Browse Archives</a>
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            <ul id="mailinglistrecentposts" class="rsslist">
                <g:each in="${news}">
                    <li>
                        ${fm1.format(it.date)}:
                        <a href="${it.url}">${it.title}</a>
                    </li>
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        <b>We organize monthly tech talks</b>
        on the latest software development technologies. Talks are followed by networking event at a local
        restaurant or bar.
        <g:if test="${nextEvent}">
            Our
            <a href="events/">next event</a>
            is
            <a href="${nextEvent.url}">${nextEvent.title} on ${fm2.format(nextEvent.when)}</a>
        </g:if>
        <g:elseif test="!${nextEvent}">
            See the
            <g:link controller="main" action="events">event calendar</g:link> for past events.
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    <p>
        <b>The name of our group is borrowed</b>
        from a classic computer science paper written by

        Edsger Dijkstra.

        In the paper he describes a thought experiment called the Dining Philosophers. There are 5 philosophers
        sitting on a circular table thinking and eating noodles with chopsticks. Read about

        <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/%7Eeliens/sim/sim_html/node7.html">the experiment</a>

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